Our 78th Competition.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 1 July 1921, Page 260

Our 78th Competition.

We offer a prize of ,£1 is. for the design adjudged the best for a small WAYSIDE CEMETERY CHAPEL for a disused pioneers’ graveyard. Its purpose devotional. 'One sheet, suitable for reproduction, showing (1) a slight exterior perspective sketch (with foreground) from the road; (2) an interior from doorway looking towards the altar; and (3) a very accurately drawn plan. Sketch may be in wash or colour. The door in a gabled front nearest the road, small rose or ** vesica-shaped ” window in gable, a “ Calvary ” in stone applied or in some recess, some arcading or other adornment to competitor’s ideas of treatment. Random rubble-faced local stone of varied tones not coursed but with quoins, and the general features stone. This to be the exhibit sheet, and marks to be given for the arrangement of the illustrations, which need not be big.

Plan to be based on an interior width, say, 13 or 14 feet wide, to seat, say, 30 people; length at discretion, no pews, steep open roof, small robing recess for priest, simple small altar and retable, etc., communicants’ step but no rails, footpace to altar, three light windows over altar, piscina, small aumbry with door for vessels, memorial tablet, etc. Low clipped hedge or a fence next the road, and simple chaste iron gate and standards or stone piers. The site is to be slightly elevated on a gentle slope.

The chapel to be solid in effect, but small, and in pure Gothic style; not elaborate, but several beautiful touches.

A second sheet of uncompleted elevations and sections not for exhibition, but to illustrate to the assessor the basis upon which the final sheet is drawn. Mr. Frank Peck, F.R.1.8.A., of Christchurch, has kindly set this subject.

Designs must be sent in finished as above under a nom de plume , addressed to the Editor “ N.Z. Building Progress,” 22 Wingfield Street, Wellington, and clearly marked, “ Seventy-eighth ” Competition on outside, with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs must be sent in by August 27th, 1921.